supported by the National Science and Technology Major Projects of China (No. 2009ZX08009-026B);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 20090461375);the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No. 2006CB101903)
Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a recently developed technique for characterizing the function of plant genes by gene transcript suppression and is increasingly used to generate transient loss-of-function assay...